Battery Energy Storage Systems Education and Training Initiative (BESS-ETI)

对能够实现高效能源管理和弹性的能量存储系统的需求日益增长。这一增长正在扩大对安装和维护电池储能系统的合格技术人员的需求。电池储能系统教育和培训计划(BESS-ETI)召集了来自电气工程和储能行业的专家，为电气工人和技术人员创建了一个强有力的教育和培训计划。该项目创建的便携课程和基于网络的互动学习练习将使社区大学的储能培训和电力工人培训计划得以扩大。该项目通过扩大支持费城社区教师的外展教育和培训资产，有助于吸引多样化的电气劳动力。该项目还通过减少能源部门部署急需的电池技术的障碍来支持国内制造业的振兴和扩张，并包括宾夕法尼亚州雷丁的制造合作伙伴核心，这是一个陷入困境的经济地区。该项目创新和重点的一个关键来源是混合学习方法的进步，该方法利用身临其境的基于网络的互动学习环境，以及一个远程实验室，在该实验室中，全国各地的教师都可以访问真实的能量存储系统和微电网的操作和监控。该项目的一个重要贡献是展示了可扩展和基于掌握的主动学习和远程实验室工具如何改善学习成果，包括安全程序、测量和验证以及系统诊断。该项目将使用定量和定性数据来评估学生在接触Bess-ETI课程前后的认知(知识和理解)和情感(信心)结果。内部和外部评估员将对BESS-ETI计划的持续改进进行形成性评估，外部评估员将对项目结果进行总结性评估。

A growing need exists for energy storage systems that enable efficient energy management and resiliency. This growth is expanding the demand for qualified technicians to install and maintain battery energy storage systems. The Battery Energy Storage Systems Education and Training Initiative (BESS-ETI) is convening experts from the electrical engineering and energy storage industries to create a robust education and training program for electrical workers and technicians. The portable curriculum and interactive web-based learning exercises created by the project will enable the expansion of energy storage training at community colleges and electrical worker training programs. This project is contributing to the attraction of a diverse electrical workforce through the expansion of outreach education and training assets supporting teachers in the Philadelphia community. This project is also supporting the revitalization and expansion of domestic manufacturing by reducing barriers to the deployment of much needed battery technologies in the energy sector and includes a nucleus of manufacturing partners in Reading, Pennsylvania, which is a distressed economic region.A key source of innovation and emphasis in the project is the advancement of blended learning methods that utilize immersive web-based interactive learning settings and a remote laboratory in which operation and monitoring of real energy storage systems and micro grids are made accessible to instructors across the nation. An important contribution of the project is the demonstration of how scalable and mastery-based active learning and remote laboratory tools can improve learning outcomes including safety procedures, measurement and verification, and systems diagnostics. The project will use quantitative and qualitative data to assess cognitive (knowledge and understanding) and affective (confidence) outcomes for students' pre- and post-exposure to the BESS-ETI curriculum. Internal and external evaluators will conduct formative evaluation towards continuous improvement of the BESS-ETI program and an external evaluator will conduct summative evaluation of project outcomes.